As a Catholic family, O.SS.T. is committed to the gospel message that Jesus Christ is our Savior. Our mission is to spread the Good News of Salvation.

Dedicated to making a difference and building a future.

We are an Old Catholic Institute of Consecrated Life like no other. A religious community that since 2009, has embodied the selflessness of man as it has helped overcome adversity in the world. We are a Benedictine Community of men and women of faith. Guided not only by our belief in God and the Catholic Church, but by our belief in each other, and in ourselves. We are The Old Catholic Marianists. Believing that a man or woman is defined by his/her actions as a follower of God, and as a leader in his/her community. Believing that a man or a woman is more than simply a man or a woman, when he/she bears the title of Old Catholic Marianist.﻿﻿

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﻿On Wednesday, July 11, 2018, The Memorial of Saint Benedict, the Order of the Most Holy Mary Theotokos officially transitioned to a Benedictine Community. As Benedictines of Mary, we remain first and foremost Servants of Jesus the Good Shepherd, dedicated to promoting devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, under her special Orthodox Church title, the Theotokos. In so doing, we intend to love and serve God through a relationaship with Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, adapting to our lives the Benedictine principles to which we base our comon life. Saint Benedict provides a Rule for monks to give monastic life structure. Benedictine monasticism simply complements a monk’s own ambition: his or her goal of glorifying God in all things. As modern-age monks, like those monks before us, we embrace Benedict’s Rule as our guide to monastic life. Please join with us in celebrating our new spirituality by joining with us in prayer in honor of Saint Benedict.

Prayer in Honor of Saint Benedict

Dear God, we praise and thank You for Who You are: The Creator and Master of the Universe, and our Father who loves us and has sent Your Son Jesus to save us from our sins.

Dear Father, You provided your holy monk, Benedict, as a leader and master in the spiritual life for a countless number of followers. Filled as he was with the spirit of all the just, You flooded him with the splendor of Your light. In the intense radiance of this light his mind was freed of hindrance and he was able to discern how incomplete all things are here below. Because of this the entire monastic company in every part of the world sings out its joy, and the Virtues on high, with all the angels, continuously praise Your glory in song.

Stir up in your Church, O Lord, the spirit that animated our Father Benedict. Fill us again with Your Holy Spirit, in order that we may learn to love what he loved and practice what he taught. As You filled Saint Benedict with the spirit of all the righteous, grant us, your servants, who celebrate his life and all the good You have accomplished through him, his followers, and his holy Rule, to be filled with his spirit, that we may faithfully accomplish Your complete Will. We ask all this through Jesus Christ Our Lord, Who with You lives and reigns, one God, world without end. Amen.

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Welcome to the official website of the Order of the Most Holy Mary Theotokos... an independent ecumenical institute of consecrated life! Also known as “The Old Catholic Marianists”, we are a self-governing religious community and autocephalous jurisdiction of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church rooted in the Old Catholic faith tradition.

In fact and in law, we are an autonomous group of people. Although our roots are in the Catholic monastic experience, we have been nourished by other traditions as well and are in spiritual solidarity with many faith communities and individuals. At present we feel more authentic standing outside the institutional structure of any particular denomination.

﻿We celebrate Saint Benedict as the Father and Patriarch of Western Monasticism and have chosen to adhere to the Holy Rule of St. Benedict, adapting to our lives the Benedictine principles, values, and disciplines to which we base our common life. ﻿

As Benedictines of Mary, we are first and foremost Servants of Jesus the Good Shepherd, dedicated to promoting devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, under her special Orthodox Church title, the Theotokos.Theotokos in Greek means "God-bearer". We honor Mary under that title and seek to live her example of the openness to the will of Almighty God and the promptings of the Holy Spirit.

We are an ecumenically minded non-cloistered(non-residential) monastic community in North America dedicated to living our lives as mirrors of the extraordinary dedication, sacrifice, andfaith modeled by our most beloved and dear Mother of God. The Order of the Most Holy Mary Theotokos, or O.SS.T. as it is often referred, is a religious community called to live and to share the good news of Jesus Christ through prayer, Eucharist, and service. The objective of our O.SS.T. monastic community is to live a good and simple life.

We are a religious community comprised of men and women of all ages,married and single, clergy and laity, living and working together as equals in the world. Our members try to help each other build a closer relationship with Christ. We do this by living a monastic life of daily prayer, reflective study, and personal service in the secular world. We seek to demonstrate our faith in unique ways as best wecan, while allowing our lives to be transformed by God.﻿

We attempt to lead a prayerful, contemplative monastic life and to be one of the many presences in the world affirming the value of compassion for all. We have responded as we could to the individual needs of one another, and more especially to the suffering and the struggling who seek our prayer, and particularly to those who cannot, or for whatever reason will not, pray for themselves.﻿

Increasingly we reach out in response to others walking a spiritual path in the challenging circumstances of life and society. We feel there is a divine spark and creativity in every individual which requires respect and support.﻿

Any baptized Christian whose faith and ministry perspective is truly both ecumenical (accepting of all who claim the Holy Name of Christ) and Catholic (universal) may make application to join.

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